Provo, UT Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

200(1), enacted by Ordinance 2015-23, prohibits any person from placing, distributing, or allowing the placement of food, grain, minerals, or similar substances within Provo City municipal limits when doing so attracts wild deer, elk, moose, or turkey in numbers or circumstances that cause property damage, endanger any person, or create public health concerns. The rule targets the attraction effect, not feeding in the abstract: a homeowner who scatters feed that draws a herd onto neighboring yards or roadways falls squarely within it. Subsection (2) carves out three exceptions.

Public employees or authorized agents acting within the scope of their duties for public safety or wildlife management are exempt, as are normal agricultural or livestock operation practices. Recreational feeding of wild songbirds, hummingbirds, or passerine birds is also exempt, but only until the City has issued a warning to cease or modify the practice; if that warning is disregarded and the continued feeding still attracts deer, elk, moose, or turkey in a way that causes damage, danger, or health concerns, the exemption no longer applies and the conduct becomes a violation.

02, Provo's general Animal Control chapter, alongside the city's chicken-keeping and swine rules, placing wildlife-feeding enforcement under the same animal control framework used for domestic-animal nuisances.